Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-23
MONTANA MATTERS.

|. In early days, a horse owned in M;.so.,
County, named Rock, was the fastose.e*oula
ter in Montana. He died ~recentlv . rot
ago Of "a years. "''ns
Quite a large party OF men are a.
developing the Rock Creek coal mines tofk
ready for q large output when the ra;ll..oooe
reaches them. 'ad
Henry Hawkins shot himself with
calibre Sharp's rife on Saturday niobtt 10 TO-
18th, near Corvallis. He Was alone 'ne
neighbours house at the time.
The mail facilities in Big Hole Basin
wretrhed. Some of the residents have to are
thirty niles for their mail. It is hopad tbssoo
when spring COL es something can be dn nat
for their reiief.-Dillon Tribune.
There are in Montana about ], 6 O ooo
head Of cattle. There were marketed la ~v
year about no. 900 head and 40. Don asS
required for home consumption. Tbe,e
were 500. 900 calves last fall.
The Block P. line will one,o
tions the coming spring with nine stean
boats, viz: Benton, Helena, Rosebud
Bachelor, Eclipse. Judith, Terry, Tomn'
kins and Missouri.-Fort Benton Rive,
Press.
Billings had a flood last week that fllsd
cellars, 1oated off sidewalks and submerped
crossings. The sloughs were turned into
! rushing rivers that cut off communicated
between various parts OF town.
To show how reports of large losses are
circulated, Captain Martin tells a Fort
Benton paper that in a certain cou'ee near
Arrow creek there were y dead cattle. He
went there and counted only sixty-four
head.
The reports of Nelson storey's losses on
L. G1,-1,to E~-1 n - =. 30 l.
gross exaggerations, the loss not having ex.
ceeded 10 per cent. at the outside, accord.
ing to the statement OF Charley Wickham,
his foreman.
In Montana during the winter COWBOYS
make a living by killing mountain lions,
for which a bounty of SO per head is paid.
The animals are ferocious and some are
very large.
There will probably be but one roundup
this season, and that will not
before June or July, AZ what cattle are
left alive on the range will not be in fix to
work, and the crop OF calves will be short
anyhow.
Already the previous estimates of cattle
loss on the ranges are being reduced. Re-
ports to the Fort Benton River Press put
them from 25 to 20 per cent. Bulls seem
to have suffered most, and it will be neces-
to put more Oh the range at once.
Horses are in excellent condition.
TIT Northern Pacific Railroad Company
soon commence the construction oil a
wide gauge track from Timberline to the
coal mines, a distance of two miles. This
as though the company were going to
resume work at these mines, at an early
day.
General 81. E. Williamson has advertised
|(T 400 InN nrnnnao1a <n h. o,:.- IL
agency until March 20 to furnish the Crow
agency with 500 pounds OF seed corn, 40
)OO pounds OF seed oats, go, 900 pounds
u se' d potatoes and 5000 pounds oil seed
wheat.
Or. Herbert Holloway, Territorial Veteri-
1arlan, states there were no cases OF
oleuro-pneumonia among the cattle neal
as reported. Although come
cattle which were being fed had died. the
cause OF death wa easily traceable and
had no connection whatever with any con-
disease.
The Belt creek coal is of a splendid quail
ty. The mines are only t~hirty-fve miles
rom Benton, just over the line of Meagher
ounty. and the product from these banks
las been the only coaI.used there for the
anthracite coal in the Territory of Mon
ana or in the Canadian northwest.
So much opposition, congressional and
therwise, has developed to the agreements
by the Northwestern Indian Commits
that it is feared it's work may be en-
rely wasted. Protests loud and long are
oming in against the Fort Berthold agree
rent. Montana. men say the agreements
re not satisfactory. 1t is also said that
ne Indians may refuse to abide by the
greements if not carried out soon.
The coal mine operated by McAllister &
ZEE, has a vein eleven feet in thickness, and
kperts give it as their opinion that it is
ne richest mine in the Territory. Several
arties are negotiating for it's purchase,
nd if successful a railroad will be built
ON the main line of the Northern Pacific
the mine, a distance OF -four miles,
Avant Courier 18th.
We are informed hat the farmers on
Creek. West Gallatin and Cotton
God are busily engag ed in blowing. sowing
nd narrowing, and that notwithstan ding
ne fact that the snow is unusually deep
n the mountain slopes and deep drifts
scorate the surrounding foothills. The
lrly sowing, after such a severe winter, is
lite remarkable and insures a heavy
4rvest.-Bozeman Avant Courier, March
7th.